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  Green economy in Amapá State, Brazil: Progress and perspectives

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2014

  This report discusses the opportunities presented by the Amapá State government’s intention to make the transition to a green economy. It explores initial progress in green policy and activity, and associated dynamics in the political economy, and lays out a broad but feasible set of sectoral and cross-sectoral policy options.
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  State of the rainforest 2014

  Rainforest Foundation Norway, 2014

  Destruction of the rainforest and other tropical forests continue on a dramatic scale in spite of unprecedented global attention to the issue of deforestation and the role of forests in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.
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  Formative Mid - Term Review of the Rainforest Foundation Norway (RFN) Program in the Amazon: Final report

  Scanteam, 2014

  This is a mid-term review of RFN's Amazon Program, financed by the Norwegian MFA with annual budgets of 30 mill NOK in 2012 - 2013 reduced to 25 mill NOK in 2014.
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  Will the BRICS provide the global public goods the world needs?

  Overseas Development Institute, 2014

  The demand for global economic governance is increasing in a globalising and increasingly interlinked economy. Yet global governance, a global public good, is currently undersupplied – and this (e.g. lack of global rules on trade, finance and emissions) is harming development.
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  Climate-smart development: Adding up the benefits of actions that help build prosperity, end poverty and combat climate change

  World Bank, 2014

  This report argues that smart development policies and projects can also slow the pace of adverse climate changes and that the objectives of economic development and climate protection can compliment one another.
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  From the GHG measurement frontline: a synthesis of non-annex I country national inventory system practices and experiences

  World Resources Institute [ES], 2013

  This working paper focuses on national greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories. It draws upon case studies from Brazil, Colombia, India, Mexico, and South Africa and highlights seven emerging good practices that these countries have used to develop capacity and improve and sustain their national GHG inventory systems.
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  Capacity needs for greenhouse gas measurement and performance tracking

  World Resources Institute [ES], 2014

  This working paper summarises the results of scoping research to assess capacity needs in six countries—Brazil, Colombia, Ethiopia, India, South Africa, and Thailand—related to greenhouse gas (GHG) measurement and performance tracking. The paper identifies common capacity challenges, as well as opportunities to overcome them.
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  Amazonian policy and politics, 2003-13: deforestation, hydropower and biofuels

  Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre, 2014

  In the period 2003-13 Brazil experienced important economic and political developments: it became a much more relevant international player; its economy entered the world’s top ten; and society became more politically active and expressed its complaints more aggressively. Amazonian policy and the politics of the period developed in this context, and three issues played a central role.
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  The Adaptation Fund, Clean Development Mechanism and Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation Fund: some national and subnational experiences

  Center for Security Studies, 2011

  With developing countries anticipating the flow of billions of dollars from developed countries to address the devastating impacts of climate change, it is important to recognise that the amounts of funding, the number of institutions involved and coherence in the global architecture will be meaningless without there being democratic governance of the funds at the local level.
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  Incentives for electricity generation in a green economy: effective frameworks from Latin America

  Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2014

  Latin American countries are implementing innovative policy and market mechanisms to catalyse the development of nonconventional renewable energy sources. This Brief presents some of the region’s success stories.

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